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"A Kansas City area radio station can broadcast Russian state-owned media programming, the type that U.S. intelligence called a 'propaganda machine,' for six hours a day..."

"RM Broadcasting LLC, a Florida-based company that has agreements to broadcast the Russian state media program Radio Sputnik... KCXL’s website, which says that it’s the radio station that will 'tell you the things that the liberal media wont (sic) tell you,' lists Radio Sputnik in its morning programming.... RM Broadcasting in 2019 was ordered by a federal judge to register as a foreign agent under the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires political agents in the U.S. acting on a foreign government’s behalf to disclose their relationships, finances and activities.... KCXL’s president is Peter Schartel, who... [says he's] 'basically a liberal, patriotic American...but our government has done some horrible things.'"

The Kansas City Star reports.

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rehajm म्हणाले...

Yet it's the domestic propaganda what goes unregulated...

wendybar म्हणाले...

Just turn on CNN, or MSNBC for the same news.

Michael K म्हणाले...

Howard Zinn fan.

tim maguire म्हणाले...

Basically a liberal patriotic American. Which means not really.

Heartless Aztec म्हणाले...

I wonder if Webb Wilder has had to register as an agent of a foreign power? Sputnik rocks.

https://youtu.be/TMKQxUaZles

buwaya म्हणाले...

Pacifica Radio did about the same for decades.
I know, I was a regular listener of KPFA out of Berkeley, in the 80's-90's

It was THE leftist authority on the US West coast.
Lauded for its "honesty", etc., in being opposed to the US MSM of the time.

Curiously, though, never attacked by the MSM of the day. For good reasons, given that it is now widely acknowledged that it was penetrated and compromised by Soviet agents of influence.

Howard Zinn and I.F.Stone also referenced the Soviet and puppet propaganda lines in their own works. You still see that, preserved in amber in a way, a frozen leftover of the Soviet propaganda machine, in Zinn's book. Zinn's/Stone's frame is no longer au courant.

Fernandinande म्हणाले...

Radio Sputnik broadcasts for "151 hours per day"!

Leland म्हणाले...

Does Al Jazeera have to register as a Foreign Agent? Did the cable/satellite companies that carry RT also have to register?

Levi Starks म्हणाले...

The right to free speech in no way guarantees that the speech we hear will be true.
In fact there’s no guarantee that ant speech is true.
There is no truth.

Tom T. म्हणाले...

NPR re-broadcasts the BBC. Why doesn't it have to register under FARA?

buwaya म्हणाले...

Details on the operations and effects of Soviet and Soviet-allied agents of influence in the western MSM can be found in, for instance, Arnaud De Borchgrave's "Spiked" - a novel, but very thinly disguised, and in Mitrokhin's voluminous works.

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

Is there, at this late date, anyone who does not know that our intelligence agencies are propaganda and disinformation organizations, aided and abetted by our corporate media?

Jupiter म्हणाले...

Radio Free North America

Temujin म्हणाले...

The Russians are so completely intertwined into the fabric of parts of our society, it's hard to know where they leave off and we begin. Check out your local K-12 classroom, to the universities, to the media.

I think Trump is clearly at work here. He must have started even before his TV show. I mean, his Presidency.

narciso म्हणाले...

Indeed buwaya, they had pipelines to strobe talbott to future secretary panetta to future candidate biden, a whole host.

narciso म्हणाले...

Now i didnt watch tass or istvestia but rt has a much more polished look, aljazeera did as well till they bought current, what a horror show.

DanTheMan म्हणाले...

In Soviet Russia, radio listens to you.

Oso Negro म्हणाले...

The Russian have their own interests, one of which is NOT advancing international socialism. I do not see why their state-owned media should be any more suspect than the BBC, which DOES appear to be interested in advancing international socialism. And just because it's a point of view from a foreign country, does not mean it is always wrong. Surely the best propaganda must contain substantial truth.

buwaya म्हणाले...

Robert Cook - precisely so. As recent events have proven. The intelligence agencies seem to have been making US national policy, and the MSM are their puppets.

You are in the same zone as, say, Angelo Codevilla. Welcome!

The same is true in some other countries, notably, to not quite as much of a degree, Britain. The BBC for instance is entirely the creature of a faction of the British establishment that includes their intelligence agencies. And France, more so probably.

buwaya म्हणाले...

Its interesting to contemplate what happened at the end of the Cold War.

In many industries and institutions there was a massive effect. I myself had to recreate my entire professional career, as did most people in aerospace.

Regions of the country lost much of their industrial base, and military establishments, making a great change in their culture and politics. California, the SF Bay area and Los Angeles in particular. These lost inherently conservative, stabilizing forms of work, and the people that did it. People are what they do.

But the ideological factories did not disappear. Those people were not discarded as redundant, so their infusion of ideological microbes continued. The pathogens had been infused by the Soviets and international communism, but the plague survived the death of its old masters.

Mike Sylwester म्हणाले...

These Russian radio broadcasts aren't harmless.

What if Russian radio helps Trump beat the Democrat candidate in the 2020 election!

narciso म्हणाले...


But who are they loyal to

http://invisibleserfscollar.com/

Chris steele is a leftist, nellie ohr is a holomodor apologist

buwaya म्हणाले...

The US intelligence agencies seem to have been taken over through infection, via their recruiting grounds, the universities. Its hard to say when they entirely turned away from their loyalty to their own nation. I suspect it was at some point in the early 1980s, possibly, when they began to at least passively cooperate with Soviet interests.

This continued and intensified even after the Soviets collapsed.

At this point they seem to have become a competing state power of their own, openly at war with the American people.

narciso म्हणाले...

What keynes said about classical economics (that didnt apply in germany or forner habsburg territory) is true about keynesianism

narciso म्हणाले...

I would say in the 90s, when the mismanagement of post soviet reforms gave them an opening, its been going on in chile around the same time.

buwaya म्हणाले...

"But who are they loyal to"

This is a crucial point. The structures of power on that side are obscure, to us.
The system seems to behave with disciplined coordination, but we groundlings cannot see the hierarchal structure that must exist behind that.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

I listen to Radio Japan every day for news. They have their own fixations, quite obvious ones, and amusingly get a lot of American politics wrong. They're always pro Palestinian and anti-Israel. But fun to listen to, partly as not having American fixations, which is to say Amican narrative pandering. New news every day.

http://www.nhk.or.jp/rj/podcast/rss/english.xml

They're not foreign agents, just foreign. Same for shortwave Radio Moscow back in the day.

narciso म्हणाले...

I usedto think that economic isues like industrial infrastructure werent as importat but they are,

Gk1 म्हणाले...

What's the big deal. Pacifica KPFK radio used to drone out communist propaganda for decades and no one was alarmed in the least.

iowan2 म्हणाले...

Communist already control the education establishment, K through post grad, and the media and the Democrat Party. Look who is leading the Dems presidential primary, an un-apologetic communist. I don't think some radio station in KC will have near the influence.

narciso म्हणाले...

Yes this station is static, the main signal can be heard all the way from alpha centauri

buwaya म्हणाले...

Soviet-era propaganda was primarily ideological. Its purposes were to undermine western institutions in order to weaken both the economy and will of the polities the Soviets targeted. Its interesting to consider the breadth and depth of the attack, much of which concerned itself with destroying civilizational fundamentals, as a sort of very long-term investment.

Modern Russian propaganda is about the immediate economic-strategic interests of the Russian state and its current leadership, with no ideological baggage that would matter outside of Russia.

Nichevo म्हणाले...

Interesting, buwaya, do you think Russia has any interest in putting down the monster they created?

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

"In Soviet Russia, radio listens to you."

"Soviet" Russia has not existed for decades. That said, our government listens to, watches, and records us at least as much as Russia or China similarly monitors their citizens. There's no real point in decrying violations by other nations of their citizens' privacy and civil rights as long as the U.S. is equally guilty of the same.

narciso म्हणाले...

you're repeating a soviet rhyme and you don't even know it,

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

"They (Japan) have their own fixations, quite obvious ones, and amusingly get a lot of American politics wrong."

This is certainly also true of the U.S. and our take on the politics in other nations.

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

"Communist already control the education establishment, K through post grad, and the media and the Democrat Party."

Hahahaha!

There will always be flat-earthers and those who think there is an international communist conspiracy to deplete our precious bodily fluids.

narciso म्हणाले...

western media teaches one to hate their own country, Russian media, does the opposite to their own people,

Wilbur म्हणाले...

Kansas City Star
That's what I are

Roger Miller

Rabel म्हणाले...

The Kansas City connection is secondary. This caught the DOJ's attention because the broadcast broker in question sold broadcasting rights for Sputnik programming to a station in DC which has been broadcasting Sputnik there full time for a couple of years. The KC agreement happened after the FARA ruling by a federal court.

As we have seen with its use to persecute Trump's supporters, the problem is with selective enforcement of FARA.

In our globally interconnected world how many entities, persons, law firms or corporations are currently registered as agents representing foreign principals (which can be either foreign governments, foreign companies of simply foreigners) under the FARA requirements?

472

That's it. And only seventeen total are registered as having the Russian government, Russian companies, or Russian citizens as the foreign principal.

BTW, Uranium One is one of the 17.

Rabel म्हणाले...

Link to the data.

RichardJohnson म्हणाले...

In the 1980s I bought a radio cassette player that had short wave radio. One time I tuned into Radio Moscow. The announcer was reading answers to listeners' questions. One listener, disturbed by layoffs in US radio stations, wondered about the stability of jobs in Soviet radio stations. The reply was that there was job stability in Soviet radio stations- not dependent on capitalist profit to survive etc. Had the answer stopped there, it would have come across as a propaganda win for the Soviets. However, the answer continued to inform listeners that "In Moscow we have four radio stations.."

Off the top of my head, I figured that New York City had at least 20 radio stations, which didn't speak well for Moscow radio,nor for the quality of Radio Moscow's propaganda. I never listened again to Radio Moscow.

xxxNew York, New York Radio Stations:We found 128 FM radio stations and 75 AM radio stations in the New York, NY area. Over 40 are in New York City or Newark. (As WQXR, the NYT classical radio station, is in Newark,Newark should be included.)

narciso म्हणाले...

the basis of the snipe hunt:


https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/18/fbi-notes-carter-page-papadopoulos/

jnseward म्हणाले...

Russian propaganda is more reliable than the Democratic Party propaganda that passes for news these days.

TheThinMan म्हणाले...

Mart Damon’s anti-fracking movie was subsidized by the Russian government. It was pure enemy propaganda but only we right wing nuts had a problem with it.

Chuck म्हणाले...

Um, the Kansas City Star? Or The Onion?

Or McClatchey? (Reporting on the WBUR interview with James Dodson where he revealed that Eric "Fredo" Trump confided to Dodson in 2013 that the Trumps got all the funding they wanted from Russia.)

narciso म्हणाले...

Indeed, and other films by dubais film promotion authority.

narciso म्हणाले...

Furthermore:



https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1218545701388419073?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Howard म्हणाले...

Radio Free Putin

FullMoon म्हणाले...

DanTheMan said... [hush]​[hide comment]

In Soviet Russia, radio listens to you.


Couple of younger smart phoners were here over holidays talking about their nee puppies.
For a couple of weeks I received spam email for dog food. and pet supplies

No dog, no alexa, no siri at my joint. And, my phone generally off .Probably coincidence.

gilbar म्हणाले...

As Jo Biden so often said We CHOOSE PRAVDA OVER FACTS!

narciso म्हणाले...

this is the same axios from the other thread, covering with a pillow,


https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1218530318124187649

Jaq म्हणाले...

"Hahahaha!

There will always be flat-earthers and those who think there is an international communist conspiracy to deplete our precious bodily fluids.”

There will always be gaslighters who serve “the revolution."

Jaq म्हणाले...

If the Trump era has taught us anything, it's that large numbers of white people in the United States are motivated at least in part by racism in the voting booth. Donald Trump ran an openly racist campaign for president, calling Mexicans rapists and criminals, regularly retweeting white supremacists and at least initially balking at repudiating former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Trump made it clear in his campaign that "Make America Great Again" meant that America was greater when white people's power was more sweeping and more secure. White voters approved of that message by a whopping 58 percent to 37 percent.. - NBC News


Heavens forfend that the American people should be exposed to propaganda!

n.n म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
n.n म्हणाले...

Turn off NPR, PRI, and other platforms for dissemination of foreign propaganda.

Jaq म्हणाले...

"The system seems to behave with disciplined coordination, but we groundlings cannot see the hierarchal structure that must exist behind that.”

There is no structure in the sense of say a kingdom with an undisputed head of state who held both the monopoly of violence and control of most of the culture. There is a “clash of the Titans” always going on off camera, and we can only make inferences about how it is going. It makes you wonder what the real news media that lets people in power actually know what is going on really is. Is it Davos and all in person? IDK.

Qwinn म्हणाले...

Shorter Robert Cook: "A worldwide communist conspiracy that controls everything? Pfffft!
Don't I wish!"

Michael K म्हणाले...

We had a discussion the other day about Charlottesville and why it turned into a riot. Another commenter said it was all McAuliffe's doing. I had read that the Mayor of Charlottesville had part of the blame. I was told by another commenter that I was wrong and he had "followed the matter very closely."

This Congressional candidate disagrees.

The reason the Antifa mob was able to attack the peaceful marchers was ONLY because the Charlottesville Police were ordered to stand down by the far-left Democratic Mayor and Governor. The police effectively ceased keeping the protesters separate from the demonstrators – and reportedly were funneling the opposing groups together, forcing the Unite the Right folks to come into direct conflict with the armed Antifa gauntlet.

Interesting. OT this thread but the events this weekend will be affected.

FullMoon म्हणाले...

If the Trump era has taught us anything, it's that large numbers of white people in the United States are motivated at least in part by racism in the voting booth.

As opposed to blacks, hispanics, asian, who simply vote for the best candidate, regardless of race .Am I right? Not to mention women, who would never vote for a candidate based on gender preference. NBC, good for a laugh.

Dude1394 म्हणाले...

Russian propaganda isn't nearly as dangerous as the democrat propaganda our media engages in.

narciso म्हणाले...


Compliment with the other link

https://mobile.twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1218624969401360385